roarcher (u/roarcher)

roarcher commented on Television is 100 years old today diamondgeezer.blogspot.co... · Posted by u/qassiov

bovermyer · 17 days ago

The article has a photo of a plaque putting Baird's death in 1946, less than 40 years old.

What happened?

roarcher · 17 days ago

He was 57, born in 1888. Died of a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Death

roarcher commented on The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/1659447091

JoeAltmaier · 2 months ago

When an aperture is aligned to the winter solstice, it is also aligned to avoid light the rest of the year. An early attempt at air conditioning? Keep the heat out.

We jump so quickly to religious significance.

roarcher · 2 months ago

> We jump so quickly to religious significance.

The article talks extensively about how these monuments were used for timekeeping. Marking the seasons allowed people to predict animal migrations and plan agricultural activities.

It seems that you are the one who has forgotten the practical uses of these artifacts.

roarcher commented on How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/artninja1988

echelon · 2 months ago

Is anyone here calling legislators about it to inform them of this?

Does anyone here have leverage to affect strategy?

roarcher · 2 months ago

Call me a cynic, but legislators own stock in these companies. Their true interest in them is also "line go up".

roarcher commented on Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice jaist.ac.jp/english/whats... · Posted by u/Xunxi

xupybd · 2 months ago

It is search if you ask it to produce a list of links.

It does well at filtering information for you.

Going to primary sources is required to verify what it says but it can reduce the leg work rather a lot.

roarcher · 2 months ago

> It is search if you ask it to produce a list of links.

Unfortunately it can hallucinate those too. I've had ChatGPT cite countless nonexistent academic papers, complete with links that go nowhere.

roarcher commented on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model susam.net/fed-24-years-of... · Posted by u/zdw

atum47 · 2 months ago

Don't know what happened. I stumbled onto a funny coincidence - me talking to a LLM about its similarities with MC - decided to share on a post about using MC to generate text. Got some nasty comments and a lot of down votes. Even though my comment sparked a pretty interesting discussion.

Hate to be that guy, but I remember this place being nicer.

roarcher · 2 months ago

Ever since LLMS became popular, there's been an epidemic of people pasting ChatGPT output onto forums (or in your case, offering to). These posts are always received similarly to yours, so I'm skeptical that you're genuinely surprised by the reaction.

Everyone has access to ChatGPT. If we wanted its "opinion" we could ask it ourselves. Your offer is akin to "Hey everyone, want me to Google this and paste the results page here?". You would never offer to do that. Ask yourself why.

These posts are low-effort and add nothing to the conversation, yet the people who write them seem to expect everyone to be impressed by their contribution. If you can't understand why people find this irritating, I'm not sure what to tell you.

roarcher commented on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model susam.net/fed-24-years-of... · Posted by u/zdw

atum47 · 2 months ago

I usually have this technical hypothetical discussions with ChatGpt, I can share if you like, me asking him this: aren't LLMs just huge Markov Chains?! And now I see your project... Funny

roarcher · 2 months ago

...are you under the impression that you have an exclusive relationship with "him"? Everyone else has access to ChatGPT too.

roarcher commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

parliament32 · 2 months ago

I doubt a human would use it repetitively, even if it is common. This was most likely written paragraph-by-paragraph by AI, causing the repetition, if I had to guess.

I can't wait for the EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content.

roarcher · 2 months ago

> EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content.

No thanks. How would you find violators, with AI detectors? Might as well go back to throwing people into lakes to see if they float.

roarcher commented on A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson historynewsnetwork.org/ar... · Posted by u/Petiver

amanaplanacanal · 2 months ago

Assuming free will actually exists, and that everything is not actually just cause and effect back to the big bang.

roarcher · 2 months ago

For the purposes of this thread we are obviously assuming free will exists. If it doesn't then achievements have no meaning and credit belongs to no one, making the whole conversation moot.

roarcher commented on A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson historynewsnetwork.org/ar... · Posted by u/Petiver

xboxnolifes · 2 months ago

Owing your success to the group does not imply that the success itself is a guarantee. Just that without the group, the odds are many many times worse.

roarcher · 2 months ago

I would argue that the degree to which you owe something credit for your success is the degree to which it guarantees that success. If my society/group/family guarantees my success, no matter my actions, I owe it everything. If it makes no difference at all, I owe it nothing.

If it merely improves my odds, then I owe it something, but there must have been at least one other factor at play, and that factor is also owed credit. I presume you would call that factor something like "luck". No doubt that that plays a role, but credit for luck belongs neither to the society nor the individual. All that is left, then, is individual choice, and so the rest of the credit belongs to the individual.